author
Sir E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) Budge
1857–1934
A self-taught scholar who rose from modest beginnings to become one of Britain’s best-known Egyptologists, he helped bring ancient Egyptian religion, language, and funerary texts to a wide popular audience. His books on the Book of the Dead and other Near Eastern works remained widely read long after his lifetime.
7 Audiobooks
The Babylonian Legends of the Creation
by Sir E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) Budge
The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians
by Sir E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) Budge
Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations
by Sir E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) Budge
Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life
by Sir E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) Budge
The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh The Discovery of the Tablets at Nineveh by Layard, Rassam and Smith
by Sir E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) Budge
The Rosetta Stone
by Sir E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) Budge
The Book of the Dead
by Sir E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) Budge
About the author
Born in Bodmin, Cornwall, on July 27, 1857, Wallis Budge developed an early fascination with ancient languages and the collections of the British Museum. While still working as a clerk, he studied Hebrew and Syriac in his spare time, later going on to Cambridge before joining the British Museum in 1883.
He became a leading figure in the museum’s Egyptian and Assyrian collections, eventually serving as Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities from 1894 to 1924. During his career he traveled to Egypt and the Sudan on collecting missions and helped expand the museum’s holdings of cuneiform tablets, papyri, and manuscripts.
Budge is best remembered today for his prolific writing and translations, especially works that introduced general readers to ancient Egyptian religion and literature. Although some of his interpretations reflect the scholarship of his era, his books played a major role in sparking popular interest in the ancient Near East, and his name is still closely associated with classic studies of Egyptian texts.